SBY asks for acceleration of issuance of pension decree

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has requested the acceleration of the issuance of a pension decree for civil servants, military officers and police officers.

He said that he received complaints from his post office box and short message service inbox regarding perceptions of the slow issuance of the decree.

“The people say it is taking a long time and some of the processes took seven months,” Yudhoyono said, as quoted by Tempointeraktif.com.

He cited a case in which it took four months for the State Personnel Administration Board to process pension procedures and another three months in the Cabinet Secretary. “I still see this as being too long, the total being seven months,” he said.

Yudhoyono said that the public also sent messages regarding a number of other topics, such as the spread of the NII (Indonesian Islamic State), the support towards terrorism eradication, the request to include the state ideology Pancasila in the national school curriculum and the demand to reduce transportation-related accidents.

Yudhoyono said that there were also requests to reject the legalization of marijuana.

As of May 15, over 3 million text messages and 111,000 letters had been received. As many as 822 text messages and 61 letters complained about the pension decree.